Residents suffering through the brutal winters of Minnesota are finding interesting ways to entertain themselves.
近日,暴风雪席卷了美国明尼苏达州,当地居民在饱受严寒之苦时,还不忘自娱自乐。
With winter comes plenty of new activities like sledding, ice skating and of course snowball fights, but when it's too cold to stay outside for more than 15 minutes, it's time for a new activity: frozen pants.
The trend seems to have started with Minneapolis resident Tom Grotting, who is well known in the area for freezing his pants and displaying them for his neighbors to see, ABC News reports.
Grotting explains that in order to get the pants to stand up, he soaks them in a bucket of water, then hangs them outside as they freeze.
格罗廷说,为了让裤子站立起来,他会先将其浸入水桶中,再把它们挂在室外,等待结冰。
“I mostly do it for my neighbor, Diane,” Grotting told ABC News. “The winter gets a little long and she doesn’t like winter very much so it’s mostly entertainment for Diane.”
Grotting says he started creating his frozen artwork a few years ago when the area was hit with a Polar Vortex, causing extremely low temperatures, perfect for pant sculpting. But things really took off when he submitted a picture of one of his pants to a local Facebook page, I Love N.E. Minneapolis.
Since the media pickup of Grotting's pants, other people living in cold climates with a spare pair of pants have been trying it out. But according to Grotting, some people aren't so happy with his new passion, particularly his two teenagers. They're probably also not too pumped that he told the media that they hate it.